The Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies has awarded grants to six University of Mississippi faculty members for their ongoing research and academic efforts in the areas of gender and sexuality.
The recipients – Yvette Butler, Jaye Davidson, Tyler Gillespie, Owen Hyman, Diane Marting and Joseph Wellman – are the newest cohort of the center’s Isom Fellows program, which encourages interdisciplinary research and collaboration between researchers across schools on campus.
“We love being able to support the important research, but it also gives us the opportunity to meet those folks and build networks between them,” said Jaime Harker, the center’s director. “The fellowship serves as a way to look across the entire university and see connections, and it’s a great opportunity for me and everyone else to reach out and see the bigger picture.”
The fellowship is a two-year program in which fellows get $4,500 a year for two years in support of the research project they submitted in their fellowship application. They also have opportunities to coordinate with the center to plan lectures, events and even cross-listed courses.
Diane Marting, associate professor of Spanish, plans to examine films about the children and babies who disappeared in the 1970s and ’80s in Argentina, and specifically the issues of justice and reproduction in those films.
“It is important to have a program like the Isom Fellowship program, not only to support intellectual and academic work that addresses interdisciplinary artistic expression, but also so that lack of justice portrayed in these films can be seen more clearly than before and perhaps redressed in some fashion in the now and the tomorrow,” Marting said.
Marting plans to produce an essay for the Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature on the topic, and plans to propose a 600-level course studying gender and literature in Spanish.
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